FDA-cleared profile

Ziostation2

Ziosoft, Inc.

Ziostation2 provides multimodality image viewing, quantification, manipulation, communication, printing, and management, with release-specific lung, bronchoscopy, cardiac MR, and advanced-visualization tools.

Evidence status: each field shows source quality, applicability, and review date. Research pending, information not established in reviewed sources, and vendor documentation pending are distinct outcomes.

Clinical fit

What this tool is for

Start with the authorized purpose, then verify how it fits your service line and reading workflow.

Exact purpose
Ziostation2 provides multimodality image viewing, quantification, manipulation, communication, printing, and management, with release-specific lung, bronchoscopy, cardiac MR, and advanced-visualization tools.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Intended users
Trained medical professionals supplementing accepted radiological interpretation methods.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Care setting and population
Hospital and outpatient imaging environments using customer-owned hardware and networked image archives.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Workflow role
DICOM image-management and advanced post-processing platform for CT, MR, ultrasound, radiography, angiography, PET, SPECT, nuclear medicine, mammography, fluoroscopy, and RT images.
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Required input
DICOM medical images received from modalities or archives over network or media.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Output and human action
Visualizations, measurements, reformats, reports, prints, and release-specific lung, virtual bronchoscopy, resection-planning, and myocardial T1 analyses.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Limitations
Lossy-compressed mammograms and digitized film-screen images cannot be used for primary interpretation, and mammography requires an approved display. Virtual bronchoscopy does not communicate with the bronchoscope; all outputs supplement professional interpretation.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03

Regulatory identity

FDA record and catalog context

The FDA listing establishes the regulatory identity. It does not by itself establish local workflow fit, pricing, security, or performance in your environment.

FDA submission
K181892
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-08-31
Modality
Radiological images; modality varies or is not specified in FDA list
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Anatomy
Multi-region
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Clearance type
510(k)
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-08-31
Decision date
2018-10-09
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-08-31
FDA status
FDA-cleared
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-08-31

Implementation

Questions for IT, informatics, and operations

Use these fields to structure a vendor demo, security review, and implementation estimate.

Integration
Customer hardware with DICOM retrieval, storage, query, processing, output, and network resource sharing; validate each modality, object, monitor, application license, archive, and report path.
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Deployment and data flow
Software installed on customer-owned hardware and optionally networked to share resources.
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Security and privacy
Vendor documentation pending
Vendor confirmation Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03

Public materials reviewed for this batch do not establish the complete security posture for the exact release. Request data-flow, identity, audit, encryption, retention, support-access, vulnerability-management, backup, and incident-response evidence.

Training and support
Only trained medical professionals supplementing accepted radiological interpretation methods. should operate or interpret the system. Local onboarding should cover the exact release, supported population, limitations, failure examples, escalation, downtime, and competency documentation.
FDA source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Monitoring and change control
Monitor by exact hardware, software and model version, patient population, anatomy, protocol, operator, input quality, output edits or overrides, failed studies, repeat acquisition or rework, downstream impact, downtime, incidents, recalls, and updates. Track the limits that matter for this product: Lossy-compressed mammograms and digitized film-screen images cannot be used for primary interpretation, and mammography requires an approved display. Virtual bronchoscopy does not communicate with the bronchoscope; all outputs supplement professional interpretation.
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03

Release and scope verification

Map the installed model, build, options, population, anatomy, inputs, and outputs to K181892 before acceptance.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-03

Later product-family features are not evidence that this cleared release includes them.

Interoperability acceptance

Customer hardware with DICOM retrieval, storage, query, processing, output, and network resource sharing; validate each modality, object, monitor, application license, archive, and report path.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-03

Test representative identifiers, orientation, geometry, measurements, units, routing, failure handling, and round trips locally.

Clinical acceptance

Use a signed local test set for the supported population and workflow. Include common and difficult cases, exclusions, acquisition variation, failed or low-quality inputs, reviewer overrides, and downstream effects. Lossy-compressed mammograms and digitized film-screen images cannot be used for primary interpretation, and mammography requires an approved display. Virtual bronchoscopy does not communicate with the bronchoscope; all outputs supplement professional interpretation.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-03

Define stop-use, escalation, rollback, and revalidation triggers before production use.

Economic evaluation

Model capital and recurring cost against net staff time after review, throughput, repeat imaging or rework, room time, consumables, infrastructure, training, service, downtime, upgrade, and replacement costs.

product family · checked 2026-09-03

Vendor productivity claims are scenario inputs, not guaranteed local savings.

Lifecycle monitoring

Monitor by exact hardware, software and model version, patient population, anatomy, protocol, operator, input quality, output edits or overrides, failed studies, repeat acquisition or rework, downstream impact, downtime, incidents, recalls, and updates. Track the limits that matter for this product: Lossy-compressed mammograms and digitized film-screen images cannot be used for primary interpretation, and mammography requires an approved display. Virtual bronchoscopy does not communicate with the bronchoscope; all outputs supplement professional interpretation.

exact submission · checked 2026-09-03

Revalidate after material software, hardware, model, protocol, interface, or clinical-policy changes.

Evidence

Performance evidence

Metrics are shown only when they are tied to a source, endpoint, population, and tested product version.

Evidence summary
K181892 reports integration, verification, regression, and risk-management testing for the platform and added tools. No clinical trial or numerical accuracy result was provided for the release.
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03
Reported sensitivity
Not applicable
Not applicable Not applicable Checked 2026-09-03

Sensitivity is not the primary applicable endpoint for this acquisition, reconstruction, segmentation, planning, guidance, or quantitative-biomarker function. Use the task-specific endpoints and tested population reported below.

Reported specificity
Not applicable
Not applicable Not applicable Checked 2026-09-03

Specificity is not the primary applicable endpoint for this acquisition, reconstruction, segmentation, planning, guidance, or quantitative-biomarker function. Use the task-specific endpoints and tested population reported below.

No contextualized exact-version metric has completed evidence review. Regulatory-document values, when available, are shown above with their limitations.

K181892 FDA performance package for Ziostation2

Manufacturer nonclinical integration, functional, regression, and risk-management verification · Representative supported multimodality DICOM datasets and release-specific post-processing workflows

exact submission · Tested version: Ziostation2 release cleared in K181892 · Sponsor or vendor study

K181892

Manufacturer evidence submitted for substantial equivalence; local clinical, technical, and workflow acceptance remains necessary.

Economics and lifecycle

Budget and ongoing governance

These are common procurement questions; unknown values remain visible until a source supports them.

Pricing and total cost
Not established in reviewed sources
Reviewed sources checked Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03

No public list price for the exact cleared configuration was found. Obtain a written quote separating hardware or license basis, enabled features, implementation, interfaces, infrastructure, training, service, upgrades, renewal, consumables, and exit costs.

Reimbursement and coding
No separate named-product Medicare payment was identified in the reviewed CMS coverage material. Evaluate the device within the applicable imaging or surgical service line and verify payer, site-of-service, and coding assumptions independently.
Public source Not applicable Checked 2026-09-03

No product-specific code

No separate named-product payment identified in reviewed public material

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · United States

Build a local total-cost and value model; do not infer reimbursement from FDA clearance.

Safety and lifecycle

Postmarket record

Recall and adverse-event records are shown only after product matching. Adverse-event reports do not establish incidence or causality.

Postmarket safety review
The 2026-09-02 openFDA device-recall snapshot contained no record matched to K181892 by exact submission identifier.
Public source Exact FDA submission Checked 2026-09-03

A zero-result exact-identifier search does not prove that no recall, correction, adverse-event report, or product-family safety signal exists.

Buyer worksheet

Open questions to take to the vendor

Open evaluation checklist

Research record

What has been checked

This audit distinguishes completed source review from fields that have not yet been researched.

Human reviewedStatus
2026-09-04Last searched
24Fields reviewed
8Source classes checked
20Unreviewed PubMed leads
0Unreviewed trial leads
0Unreviewed FDA recall leads

Recovered from the prior exact-submission extraction and normalized under the current provenance rules. Exact FDA materials, current product-family sources, selected clinical literature, reimbursement context, and exact-identifier recall candidates were reviewed. Pricing, contracted services, enabled options, final security architecture, and local interoperability remain organization-specific evidence. Automated exact-name discovery found 20 PubMed and 0 ClinicalTrials.gov candidate records. Candidates require human product and version matching; zero candidates is not evidence that no studies exist. Native FDA recall identifiers produced 0 postmarket candidate records; 0 have been reviewed (0 published, 0 rejected) and 0 remain unreviewed.

Candidate leads remain unpublished until a human confirms the exact product and tested version.

Source classes: fda ai list, fda decision summary, vendor product page, reimbursement policy, fda device recall, pubmed, clinical trials, openfda device recall

Sources

Source ledger

Sources accessed through 2026-09-03.

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